As much as I am a fan of Apple, the iOS 26 Safari redesign is a great example of facile “simplicity” in place of good UI/UX design. Regular functionality like sharing, bookmarks, and history are collapsed behind a single action button and history is hidden under bookmarks. But it looks simpler!

This is facile and evidences they don’t understand the issue. 1. Voice cannot entirely replace a GUI. I don’t want to navigate what music or podcasts are available via voice. 2. CarPlay/Android Auto are especially useful because they allow for any data, app on a user’s phone to be available in car.

The sign of a classy kids birthday party: a good lunch that took a bit of effort, and backup Costco pizzas for the kids (and who are we kidding, the adults)

"'This is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history,' said Donald K. Sherman, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit legal watchdog group that has been critical of the administration."

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The amount of “if only the Democrat-Republican-corporate mafia would let me, I would have a $12K BYD EV” on here is annoying. 1. No you wouldn’t. 2. The $12K Dolphin doesn’t meet US safety standards. 3. The European spec ones (with US-like safety standards) are priced similarly to US EVs.

Unrestricted partisan gerrymandering before each election without even the anchor of anti-discrimination laws is not in any way a democracy. It is entirely psychopathic and can only be excused by psychopaths.

I’m into it. Pretty small (about 164” length). Range isn’t great (~192 mi for the standard range variant to 277 mi for the long range variant), but more than usable for day to day use. Love having a real hatchback BEV option.

A movie which only gets better every time you watch it

Black Angels are doing a Passover tour… might have to go catch it. Seeing them in 2008 at the Troubadour is still one of the best shows I’ve been to

A nontrivial percentage of this app’s user base didn’t live through the fail whale and it shows

this year might be the first year I really wish I was at coachella

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Excited about this. We loved our Kia EV9 and when it’s time to replace our Forester, I’d like to replace it with something smaller. Since I’d primarily use it around town, the smaller battery one would actually be completely fine, too.

Holy shit. This one may be offline for the rest of the year. A normal restart already takes months. That smelter is like 2% of global production. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This website has a problem. I still think it’s vastly better than X or Threads. And I wish Mark would keep doing summaries here. But I get why he doesn’t want to anymore This is the only social media site I know where a big chunk of users try to drive ppl off it for any perceived error, real or not

These UI elements in Cowork are delightfully low-fi. Probably in part because they feel like UI design I did in OmniGraffle back when I began hacking around with UI design.

Prime ribeye, cooked indirect over charcoal with a rosemary-sage bundle. Seared and basted with a rosemary-sage bundle. Hasselback roasted sweet potatoes with sage brown butter. Rosemary and sage from our garden. Simple meal that turned out fantastic.

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

This is the FCC Chairman, who is ostensibly a non-partisan industry regulator, openly bragging about conducting a political purge of the media.

The US doesn't get to launch an illegal sneak attack and then immediately lose control of the most important choke point in the world and destroy global supply chains. As the maritime hegemon, its only job was not to have that happen. It's hard to come back.

I read the series as an adult (to our kids), so I don’t have a special association for the books or movies, but aesthetically this looks like an improvement on the films. The films had a kitschy quality to them which conflicted with the tone of the books (to me anyway). Happy to see if it’s good!

Let’s do a little cost of driving comp for funsies. We have an EV9, so let’s use the Telluride. Telluride Hybrid gets 31 mpg. Gas is north of $6/g here now, so $6 / 31 =$0.19 per mile. EV9 gets ~3 mi/kWh. Our (expensive!) electricity is $0.24/kWh. So $0.24 / 3 = $0.08 per mile.

The Mach-E’s CarPlay integration for state of charge is something I miss about it vs our EV9. Still a lovely car to own and drive.

Maybe we were better off with TV and networks gatekeeping our media after all

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You know, I’m starting to wonder if being a tough manly man (cranking out homoerotic military sizzle clips and murdering people) is actually a cheat code for victory after all.

The right move for a lot of people is a used Bolt. They’re available for ridiculously cheap, they’re a great BEV (buttery smooth throttle, great one pedal and regen, and the regen paddles are fun), functional space inside even for a family, and solid range. DCFC is poor but only impacts road trips.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

The best things anyone concerned about the outcomes of AI can do is 1) help and wish for the continued compression of intelligence into a smaller number of params; and 2) help create tools and culture which use AI for growing value, not just replacing labor.

Starting to use Aeronaut.app on MacOS for Bluesky and tbh getting some Tweetie.app vibes from back when—which is a very good thing

There’s a fish in the percolator

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.” Stop what you’re doing and read this incredible @jvl.bsky.social piece.

Bari Weiss will be all over this overt censorship I’m sure. …wait a second

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

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@genmon.fyi Re Reminders for agents, I got so much value out of Claude’s iOS app support for Reminders and Calendar. I created meal planning skills which depend on Reminders (weekly meal plan, recipe library, grocery list); I toss Claude new recipes and it adds it to my recipe library.

For anyone wanting to play with the bot formerly known as Clawd, you might want to just start with LettaBot. It’s quite useful right out of the box and very capable. Its memory is great, it has built in support for skills, and it integrates with their ADE, too. letta.bot

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

I mean I would be very intrigued by this. But this is a high risk high reward maneuver. If you put olive oil on your resume, you better have something interesting to say about it

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

They murder someone, then blatantly and outrageously lie about the victim and what transpired. Lies which are obviously disproven by video from multiple angles. This is now a government which brutalizes people, then blatantly maligns the dead and lies to the American people about it after they do.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.